What's happening
This bill increases the period of validity for the identification of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders from two to five years.
Why it matters
Reduces administrative burden. By extending the validity period from two to five years, comprehensive care centers for eating disorders will need to go through the identification renewal process less frequently, freeing up resources for patient care rather than paperwork.
Improves operational stability. Longer identification periods provide centers with more certainty and stability, which can help with long-term planning, staff retention, and investment in services.
Maintains oversight with safeguards. Centers must still report any significant structural or operational changes to the commissioner, ensuring ongoing oversight and accountability even as renewal intervals lengthen.
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Extend Certification for Care Centers
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- Signed chap.259
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.254
- Substituted for A7949
- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.1154
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- Referred to health
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Extend Center Certification to 5 Years
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Felix Ortiz
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5927
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 5, 2017
Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to increasing the period of validity to 5 years for the commissioner of health's identification of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2799-h of the public health law, as amended by section 13 of part A of chapter 109 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
2. The commissioner's identification of a comprehensive care center for eating disorders under this article shall be valid for not more than a two year period from the date of issuance. The commissioner may reissue such identifications for subsequent periods of up to [two] five years, provided that the comprehensive care center has notified the commissioner of any material changes in structure or operation based on its original application, or since its last written notice by the commissioner, and that the commissioner is satisfied that the center continues to meet the criteria required pursuant to this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11480-01-7
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to increasing the period of validity to 5 years for the commissioner of health's identification of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders
Purpose
To extend the time period for designations of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends subdivision 2 of section 2799-h of the Public Health Law to provide for the designation of comprehensive care centers for eating disorders to be undertaken every five years, rather than the existing requirement of re-designation every two years.
Section two of the bill provides that the legislation would take effect immediately, but would not affect the expiration of the underlying statute.
Justification
Eating disorders are complex and serious illnesses that are expensive to treat, especially when they become chronic. Close to 20 million Americans suffer from eating disorders and, based on current population and prevalence rates, approximately 800,000 New Yorkers have had or will have an eating disorder in their lifetime. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness (20%), and are often accompanied by co-morbid physical and mental health conditions such as cardiac arrhythmias, substance abuse, depression, and severe anxiety. Treatment requires specialized and intensive care. With a rise in hospitalizations for eating disorders in the US over the last 10 years, programs to prevent illness and improve treatments for individuals with eating disorders are critical.
Legislation signed into law on June 21, 2004 established the New York State Comprehensive Care Centers for Eating Disorders (CCCED) in order to conduct public awareness activities and research into eating disorders, and provide care to individuals with these disorders. The New York State Comprehensive Care Centers for Eating Disorders (CCCED) continue to provide quality, coordinated care for patients with eating disorders across the care continuum and foster relapse prevention and sustained recovery in the community. In order to provide statewide access to their unique services, three centers have been designated by the Department of Health:
*Northeast Comprehensive Care Center for Eating Disorders at Albany Medical Center;
*Metro Comprehensive Care Center for Eating Disorders at New York-Presbyterian Hospital; and
*Western New York Comprehensive Care Center for Eating Disorders at University of Rochester
Unlike most other public health and disease centers designated by the Department of Health, these centers are required by their authorizing legislation to be re-designated every two years, rather than the more common duration of five years. This designation process requires significant staff time both at the Comprehensive Care Centers and at the Department of Health where the recertification is determined.
Staff time lost to the re-designation process is time taken away for services to help patients, families, and the communities affected.
In order to avoid unnecessary administrative expense for the Centers and the Department and to align with the designation timeframes of other public health centers designated by the Department of Health, this legislation proposes to extend the designation for Comprehensive Care Centers for Eating Disorders from two years to five years.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None. The extension of the designation period should reduce administrative burdens on the Centers and on the Department of Health and may thereby free up resources that might be used for other purposes.
Effective date
Immediate.
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